Description

This certificate examines Stamina Training for Football and the importance of a multi-sprint stamina and strength endurance approach to the whole concept of endurance development of football.

Certificate introduction – 4 PDF documents

Resource notes

A total of 24 lectures in PDF format, available to download and print

1 mini exercise

3 multiple-choice activities

Introduction to Stamina for Football

8 week online course

Introduction to M2

The Certificate covers stamina or endurance training for your chosen sport. The reason we start with endurance development is simple. At the start of the training year, stamina is seen as the first component of fitness that is undertaken in a training programme.

This Certificate starts by looking at endurance development in general and then endurance as it applies to sport specific training for football. While football is not regarded as an “endurance sport”, we know that there is a need for endurance training of some dimension in order that players are conditioned to last a game of high intensity.

In order to understand the endurance requirement, the course content looks at the physical fitness demands of the sport and tries to outline the best way to get players fit to meet these demands. In particular, we look at how fit a player needs to be to last a fast paced game. In other words we want to look at the type of specific fitness that is required in the sport of football.

We normally make the assumption that all our students are well qualified at coaching the techniques and skills of the game and our aim is to integrate their ability to coach the physical fitness elements to enhance the work of skill coaching.